The final version of VS2010 sp1 is now available for download Download Service Pack 1 (MSDN Subscribers) Thursday’s general availability download is here. The description\features in the SP1 can be found at this LINK Share this post

Today we announced the plans for the next version of Silverlight along with a bunch a demos at the FireStarter event. If you missed it, you can take a look at the recordings The feature list for SL5 includes Media improvements Graphics Improvements Databinding updates Performance improvements Fluid UI capabilities Text improvements …. and…

One more interesting site: www.xamalot.com … Was looking around for some interesting xaml artifacts for a sample project and this site had plenty of it. The clipart is pretty nice (as shown below)… Have fun.. \ Share this post

The other day when browsing through the blogosphere I came across Arik’s posts describing the workarounds\tips that he used for porting his 3.5 WPF application to Silverlight. It was a good read since all these tips from different bloggers have been consolidated in 2 posts Porting from WPF to Silverlight: The Missing Pieces, Part 1…

The Ribbon Control is a pretty big control owing to the complexity of the Ribbon design guidelines. You can give it a try by downloading from LINK While there are several things to blog about, this post will focus on RibbonGallery. The download provides a sample that covers all features by implementing the Office Ribbon….

Kael has a nice series on the Zoomable Canvas control The usage is something like <ListBox.ItemsPanel> <ItemsPanelTemplate> <ZoomableCanvas Loaded=”ZoomableCanvas_Loaded” RealizationLimit=”1000″ RealizationRate=”10″ RealizationPriority=”Background”/> </ItemsPanelTemplate></ListBox.ItemsPanel> (Move the Slider right to see it in action) (this is an xbap in an iframe. Would require IE\FireFox with .NET4 on your machine) Slide the slider right to populate the canvas….

One of the interesting things you could easily do with the Xaml Toolkit is manipulation of Xaml. For example, in the case of XamlPadX, if we copy pasted xaml from a WPF application, it wouldnt render because of events, unknown members and so forth. We would need to extract these members in order to make…

The WPF Ribbon control is easy to use once you get the basics of it. The structure is simple <ribbon:Ribbon x:Name=”Ribbon” > <ribbon:Ribbon.ApplicationMenu> <ribbon:RibbonApplicationMenu SmallImageSource=”Images\SmallIcon.png” > <ribbon:RibbonApplicationMenuItem Header=”Open _File” ImageSource=”Images\LargeIcon.png”/> </ribbon:RibbonApplicationMenu> </ribbon:Ribbon.ApplicationMenu> <ribbon:RibbonTab Header=”Home”> <ribbon:RibbonGroup Header=”Group1″> So you have Ribbon, Menu, RibbonTab, and then the Ribbon…

The Ribbon Control is now available to the public for download. If you havent taken a look yet, would definitely recommend it. A neat thing about this release is that it includes a design time plugin to VS. So out of the box you have a template in VS, when creating a new project The…